Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Eco-News -- Selkirk Eye-Care Optometrists – located in the communities of Nelson & Castlegar in BC (Canada) - is joining in the trend for eye-care specialists raising awareness & getting their customers to bring in their old glasses to be donated to 3rd world countries. Lens Crafters (located in Canada & the US) and the Lions Club International created a similar program in 1988 that continues today, called Give the Gift of Site . We'd like to take a moment today to celebrate these wonderful positive, proactive actions :) What happens in these programs is: Volunteer optometrists and technicians take hundreds of thousands of use the parts from donated glasses to create new ones that will suit a variety of needs, shapes & sizes. Then a group of specialists travel to developing countries to provide free eye examinations & distribute the glasses where they are needed the most. This is an incredible example of seeing "waste" as a resource that helps...

-- Quote of the Day -- "For the sake of future generations, we must collect and study the wild and weedy relatives of our cultivated plants as well as domesticated vegetables. These sources are dangerously neglected. The future will not be so tolerant. We cannot afford to ignore any source of the gene pool." ~ Jack R. Harlan, Professor Emeritus -- Up-Dates & Chatter - I have just updated our myspace blog which gives you our schedule one week at a glance, which you can find at: www.myspace.com/canadianauthor My newsletter - Brummet's Monthly - just went out yesterday: check out all the prizes we have in May! I hope that some of you can join me at the interviews throughout May and June :) Brummet's Monthly is an opt-in e-newsletter that goes out during the last week of every month. Simply email me asking to be on the list if you'd like receive the newsletter: ldbrummet@yahoo.com Our 2 radio shows have recently had all of May's episodes available for our lis...